Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 2 | The therapist 's task is to be sensitive to these differences and work with the parents to devise strategies of change that fit in with their cultural viewpoint . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 4 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 5 | Now Leicester need a win in their last game , and they have to hope Boro slip up in their last two , at home to Grimsby on Tuesday and at Wolves next Saturday , if they are to keep hold of second place and avoid the nerve-wracking play-offs . |
| 6 | Ramblers and many of the climbers flower on year-old wood : new stems grow out to their full length one year — and in the more vigorous kinds , this may be very long indeed — and then bear bloom the following year . |
| 7 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 8 | They ‘ memorise ’ the information she supplies , process it somehow , and then , compensating for crosswinds and the movement of the Sun , fly out on their own directly to the flower patch . |
| 9 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 10 | These provide a succession of blooms from mid-June — with feverfew ( Chrysanthemum parthenium ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) and lupin ( Lupinus nootkatensis ) — through the summer with tansy ( Tan- acetum vulgare ) and soapwort ( Saponaria officinatis ) , until mid-October when the Michaelmas daisies ( Aster novi-belgii ) finally die down after their two-month flowering period . |
| 11 | On a bright and chilly Saturday in November , Napier Alumni Golfing Society teed off with their inaugural meeting , at Gullane Golf Club . |
| 12 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 14 | Not all British private-eye stories match up to their American counterparts , but it can be done . |
| 15 | These snazzy rollers heat up in their own box which holds three different sized , colour-coded rollers . |
| 16 | It will ask why women put up with their subordinate position in society , or rather , examine the strength of the pressures which make it difficult for women to produce social change despite their continuing attempts to do so . |
| 17 | Individuals or small groups are carefully trained in the new methods and then put back into their usual working positions . |
| 18 | While they all climb back into their ancient cars I take Rufus aside for a talk . |
| 19 | Listen out for their traditional cry of ‘ Shiver me timbers , Guv ’ as they pass each other along the grand canals of the West End . |
| 20 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 21 | I was , however , pleased in my year to be associated with many papers and reports put out by their working parties : to government , select committees , special interest groups and to the national and transport media . |
| 22 | ‘ When you consider the inexperience of the side they put out in their first Test against France , their 20–15 victory was remarkable . |
| 23 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 24 | Most cases clear up on their own , without special treatment . |
| 25 | Although these are intended to complement written work , they almost always stand up in their own right . |
| 26 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 27 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 28 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 29 | People with faces like unworked mahogany stand around in their tunic-like costume and ill-fitting boots with turned up toes . |
| 30 | KINGMAKER , recently returned from their first major US outing , load up with their current ‘ Armchair Anarchist ’ single and launch into their UK tour with a live assault visiting . |